The Bridgewater Brief
Everything happening in Bridgewater, every morning: town hall, schools, road work, openings, and what is coming up.
Get the Bridgewater brief every morning, free. Everything happening in Bridgewater in one two-minute email: town hall, schools, road work, openings, and what is coming up. Sign up. Know a newsletter, official, or group we should be reading? Tell us.
Government & development · Events & things to do · Schools · Openings, closings & business
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Budget committee moves to restore worker hours and shore up library funding using one-time grants.
From Bridgewater News
- Budget panel forwards pay restoration, library rescue plan. Bridgewater's Budget and Finance Committee moved to forward a plan restoring most employee hours from 35 to 38 using an unbudgeted state prison mitigation grant, plus a stabilization-fund transfer to raise the library budget, a move one member warned should not depend on one-time money.Bridgewater News
- CPC splits library accessibility funding, debates ramp design. Bridgewater's Community Preservation Committee worked through a library accessibility request split between window and interior work and a contested exterior ramp near the building's historic brick facade, alongside new funding questions on the Old State Farm Trail and the shuttered School Street fire station.Bridgewater News
- Disability panel presses chiefs on storm, heat readiness. Bridgewater's Disability Commission heard from Police Chief Chris Del Monte and Fire Chief John Schlatz on storm and heat planning for seniors, citing an estimated 400 to 700 homebound residents and outlining shelter sites at the Williams School, the high school and the senior center.Bridgewater News
- Conservation board delays Curve Street wetland case to Oct. 8. Bridgewater's Conservation Commission continued a long-pending Curve Street wetland-fill case to October 8 after the town's interim development director challenged the plan, while the board also kept daily fines on an Elm Street property and opened a hearing on a new Bedford Street building.Bridgewater News
Recent editions
- Sunday, September 20, 2026 — Bridgewater panel recommends doubling many parking fines and funding restoration of the town's 1850 fire engine